Childish Gambino New Song
Donald Glover/Childish Gambino in the music video for 'This is America.' The capped an important weekend for.
Glover released the 4-minute opus under his musical alter-ego Childish Gambino, after performing the song on NBC's 'Saturday Night Live.' It launched a storm of conversation on social media and quickly. Like much of Glover's work, 'This is America' is cryptic and loaded with shocking imagery and metaphor.
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The track's tone swerves from happy-go-lucky psalmic readings to more alarming verses. In typical Glover fashion, he dismissed close readings of his work in an interview at. 'I just wanted to make a good song,'. 'Like something that people could play on Fourth of Julys.' Directed by his and choreographed by Sherrie Silver, the music video touches on gun violence, the precarious state of black bodies in the US, and how we've historically used entertainment to distract us from pervasive cultural and political problems. But the music video's iconoclastic images and many layers to fully parse. Here are 24 things you may have missed.